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If you started the program from the GNOME menu, you can usually find the name of the program by going to "Help -> About" in the program's internal menus. You can also go to "System -> Preferences -> Personal -> Sessions" on the GNOME menu. Click on the "Current Session" tab to see a list of programs running on your desktop.

If you started the program from the command line, the name of the program is the first "word" of the command (everything before the first space, which might include dashes or underscores).

If you want to find out exactly what command a specific menu item will run, in Gnome you can do the following:

Right-click on the menu item and select "Add this launcher to panel"

Right-click on the icon that appears on your panel and select "Properties"

Record the "Command" field, then close the Properties window.

Right-click on the panel icon again and select "Remove from panel" to put things back the way they were when you started.

In Fedora, a given "source" RPM can produce multiple RPMs in the distribution. Bugzilla groups bugs according to the "source" RPMs only. Once you have the RPM name, you can get the "source" RPM name (which might be different) using "rpm -qi". For example, run "rpm -qi glibc-common" and then look for the line that says "Source RPM:" In this case, it's glibc-2.9.90-7.src.rpm, which means the component name to use in Bugzilla is "glibc" (everything before the dash before the version number).